To date, the Obama White House has released very little information regarding the president’s whereabouts and actions on the night of 9-11-12, when the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya was under terrorist assault. Today, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta shed some light on the president’s actions, but his testimony before the Senate raises more questions.

Under questioning from Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) Panetta says that President Obama knew “generally” what US military assets were deployed in the region, but did not ask for specifics. He left the strategy, according to Panetta, “up to us,” meaning himself and military leadership. Panetta says that after the initial briefing, which took place at about 5 pm Washington time, he had no further communications at all with President Obama that night. The president never even called to ask how the attack was progressing. No one from the White House ever called later that night, according to Panetta, to inquire about the attack. President Obama went to bed that night not even knowing whether the Americans under assault had survived the attack.

US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the assault, which the Obama administration later blamed on an obscure YouTube movie.

Penatta’s testimony appears to resolve one mystery. After the attack, the White House came under criticism for failing to release any photographs of the president taken during the attack. The White House eventually released a single photo, which it says shows the president receiving his initial briefing on the attack, from Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough. That is probably the briefing that Panetta mentioned as taking place at 5 pm local time. The attack went on for several more hours. Many have questioned why there have been no photos released of Obama monitoring the attack from the White House situation room. The answer appears to be that he never went to the situation room, and was not monitoring the attack.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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Just think, the blithering idiot Chris Rock called this other blithering idiot the “Father” of America! I know I sleep a lot sounder just knowing that my “Father” is watching over me at night! We know that BHO had a big day ahead of him and needed his sleep so he wouldn’t make too many mistakes reading his teleprompter in Las Vegas during his fundraiser. And this moron got RE-ELECTED!!!!!!!

Maybe he is a moron, but those who re-elected him are the true morons.
I don’t care if they are the majority or not, they are morons.

PS
How in hell could he go to sleep knowing that America was under attack ?
Answer
Ask the morons who have voted for him.
No, seriously, talk with any lefty and try to measure his/her moral depth, and you’ll get your answer.

Weird watching these two squirm as though they had a severe case of hemorrhoids whenever they expected hard questions from Republican senators. But then, there were few of those, anyway. Pitter-patty around Benghazi.

Any wonder that we do not trust the Government? Any wonder that the shelves are bare of ammunition and non-assault rifles? I believe that there is a God, and a Heaven, and that we have to answer for our sins. Most of Obama’s cabinet must be made up of 100% atheists, for how else can they do what they do with little regard for the truth.

That’s right ! Moochelle waiting to smack him wit’da skillet if he was late for din-dins? Monitoring the sit during an act of war against America beneath his pay grade?

And, it wasn’t even 3am! That’s gross dereliction of duty! Despicable! Cowardly! Then “cause” one’s “underlings” to lie about it? Perp-walk a video blogger with max news coverage in the dead of night for a relatively minor parole violation to distract from all that? Double-Despicable! Cast over all this the cloak of a formal investigation although the facts were obvious from the start? Just long enough not to jeopardize reelection? Triple-Despicable! Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!

“The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our UN ambassador, anybody on my team, would play politics or mislead when we lost four of our own, governor, is offensive,” Obama said.